Oops, never mind! Netflix neutrality.

• Author: Suderman, Peter
• Position: Citings - Brief article

WHILE THE Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was considering how and whether to institute net neutrality rules on Internet service providers last year, the streaming video company Netflix was urging it on. As National Journal reported last September, the company expected the rule both to "protect its profits" and to garner "goodwill from Web activists and liberals."

So when the FCC officially passed its package of net neutrality rules--including a major overhaul of the way broadband Internet service is classified, changing it from a lightly regulated Title I information service to a more heavily regulated Title II telecommunications service-you might have expected Netflix to be among the first to...